Portwell Announces New Mini-ITX Embedded System Series with Flexible Expansion Design

Original Press Release

Portwell Announces New Mini-ITX Embedded System Series with Flexible Expansion Design

Press release date: August 15, 2013

FREMONT, CA. -- American Portwell Technology, Inc., (http://www.portwell.com) a wholly owned subsidiary of Portwell, Inc., a world-leading innovator in the Industrial PC (IPC) market and a Premier member of the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance, announces WADE-8015 embedded system product family, a versatile new Mini-ITX embedded board based system series utilizing the 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors. WADE-8015’s innovative design makes it easy to integrate with a variety of form factors and provides flexible expansion for PCIe, PCI and ISA support. It is available in 35W/45W low power consumption CPU solutions for energy saving and improved system thermal management in a wide range of applications. The WADE-8015 system series provides four solutions: Shoebox WEBS-8015S; Desktop WEBS-8015D; 2U Rack Mount WEBS-80152U; and Fan-less WEBS-3583.

The Portwell WADE-8015 embedded system product family incorporates a minor design modification via the expansion board to fulfill the requirement for a legacy add-on slot or I/O.

Cost Effective and Flexible Design
According to Robert Feng, product marketing manager at American Portwell Technology, one of the main benefits of the new WADE-8015 embedded system family is its cost effectiveness in shortening the development schedule and its flexibility to support a variety of product solutions via the same embedded board. “We designed the WADE-8015 embedded system series to provide expansion flexibility for the Mini-ITX form factor to support the volume of expansion slots of a FlexATX or uATX in order to obtain the legacy signals required by some specific applications,” Feng says. “The WADE-8015 expandable board design provides versatile system solutions that fulfill different market requirements with backward availability for ISA and PCI expansions.”

Simplified Operations and Long Product Life Cycle
Frank Shen, American Portwell Technology’s vice president of product marketing, points out the flexibility of the WADE-8015 expansion board enables customers to simplify their operation and inventory efforts by offering various product solutions built with one and the same board. “In addition,” Shen says, “customers who need ISA and PCI support can achieve that with Intel’s latest Core processing performance and some minor modification to the board and still maintain the cost effectiveness of a short development schedule. Not only that,” Shen continues, “but our customers also benefit from the peace of mind they get from the long life cycle support inherent with every Portwell product.”

Product availability: In addition to American Portwell Technology, Inc., the Portwell WADE-8015 embedded system product series is also available through Arrow Electronics, Inc. and Avnet, Inc.

About American Portwell Technology
American Portwell Technology, Inc., is a world-leading innovator in the embedded computing market and a Premier member of the Intel® Intelligent Systems Alliance. American Portwell Technology designs, manufactures and markets a complete range of PICMG computer boards, embedded computer boards and systems, rackmount systems and network appliances for both OEMs and ODMs. American Portwell is an ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 14001:2004 certified company. The company is located in Fremont, California. For more information about American Portwell’s extensive turnkey solutions and private-label branding service, call 1-877-APT-8899, email info@portwell.com or visit us at http://www.portwell.com.

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